econcon

I started a filament brand based on developed at garage tech: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

I feel really good knowing that I am competing with others who are using machines made by real engineers and also I get free filament for my hobbies and money from which I am able to buy more machinery and tools than I'll ever need.

Escorts and strippers (sex workers) also can't perfect with social distancing in mind.

Social media is polarising, if someone thinks their life is shitty - social media magnifies it several hundred times untill you've become very sure only your life suck and all people are having it easy other than you.

Isn't this what Google's Spanner does?

And government makes boatload of cash by changing tariffs, port clearance, and tons of other fees etc... If you remove all of them, we can get wayy cheaper price than what we get.

It's also true in china. When I used to live in china, for same day delivery in Shanghai I had to book a cab for $40

>There is definitely a problem with subsidising the destruction of US small-scale businesses while favouring Chinese businesses and subsidising death of American citizens via fentayl.

You can find extreme examples in anything.

But let me tell you, sometime back I was unemployed. I bought machining tools from china and setup a good business, I could have never been able to afford local manufactured tools without accuring debt.

I paid a lot of money in taxes as my business grew, I bought better quality machines which were locally available from local suppliers because local suppliers ensures a maintenance package.

>The trouble is that we are subsidizing the shipment of items from China.

I don't see any problem if taxpayer is the one is paying cheaper price as the end result. It's not like Chinese are charging full rate and sending for dirt cheap and booking mega profits like that.

And if a student can order cheaper pen and paper from china or a mechanic can order cheaper nut bolts and screwdriver from china, what's the harm?

Doesn't it make sense that flying dragons fossils are often found in South East Asia so chickens appeared there?

If your CTR on ads drops for all advertisers on facebook. What can you do? How can you figure out of its just a technical glitch or someone purposely wrote bad code to create this situation where Facebook is benefiting at expense of every other advertiser..

Infact, Facebook can hire a residential IP service provider like Luminati and use bots to click their advertiser's landing pages in name of malware checks and bill them and later when caught say "ohh we made an error" then even your CTR or landing page tracking metrics are going to fail.

I come from adtech, so I know what is possible in this space and what my smart colleagues are capable of doing.

Payoneer is a joke company. Sometime back we were using epsyments to pay the salaries of our post Soviet nation based contractors, they were better but I think now it doesn't work anymore?

And Payoneer was always very difficult to sign up to.

Nearly all products, markets and human interactions operate on specific model which makes some assumptions, those assumptions often end up as rule - so that the model stay predictable for the people governing it.

By not following those assumptions (rules) you can make a new better model which might have better accuracy at representative real world problem than the existing model.

It doesn't mean that it's unethical or morally wrong. It doesn't have to be.

If we really take the macro view, it seems Facebook is a bank which can print money at its whims.

Sure, advertises commit their billion dollar adspent but Facebook can always claim their commited amount have been spent and populate the dashboards with realistic data.

The big brands do not base their ad expense on specific metrics like small businesses do. Once you are big enough to make billions, chasing matrics results limiting your market.

Yea how are they even flying? Haven't read the article but I guess it's one of those things where the operator had the skills but isn't getting official stamp from some institution because of some agenda of creating artificial shortage or asking for money for stamp?

These guys probably know how to fly right? Is flying very small part of overall pilot certification?

I remember having read that south East Asians have more neanderthal DNA than Europeans.

This is actually very popular usecase among dropshipping too, being locked to one store reduces conversion rates.

We can make subaccount in stripe, so it's easy to specific different subaccount for different product.

While WooCommerce is there but still we need to setup wordpress blog and multiple other things.

I think their point is unless you are seeing 50-50 ratio in everything, there is descrimination and bias. Not that I support this view but I think he could have put it more clearly.

They can do that but then there are people like me, who need no weekend off, no vacations, can work more than 60 hours a week - I am ready to take all leadership

It has infact opposite effect on me, the more I work the more I am escaped from normal day to life problems and emotional setbacks (caused mostly by other people and being aware myself, I can't do anything but just to blame myself) I choose work as my escapism.

>Why do men chose to live a life they regret later?

I was discussing our experiences with my sister, we are only 1 year apart.

She felt very valuable since she turned a teenager and I felt pretty worthless as a guy I had to study hard and achieve the things to become valuable to people around me meanwhile she was already cool for existing (her own words when she compared herself to me) so she never felt any need to hone other skills.

Fast forward, she has less education and success under her belt and I do support her financially as she's my only sister ofc I am not spoon feeding her but I do give her soft corner no matter what she does I must forgive her.

Why did I choose this weird life where I've overworked myself to death - one reason : it's a nice escape from self doubts and insecurities.

Whenever I did choose to relax my mind wandered off to chasing girls where I got rejected 8/10 times and developed significant obsession and skill honing to bed girls, I later succeeded by increasing my chance to 50-50 on any girl I hit on. Sorry, if it sounds rediculous because this is my experience, you might think of me as con artist but it is what it is.

As I got richer I realized, wealth is not what it all hyped to be - my dating prospects definitely increased but not that much to make difference. But now different kind of people started appearing in life who just wanted things from me.

So I switched my focus from wealth building to becoming famous/important and I succeeded by getting plastic surgery + steroid for sculpted Greek god figure and also good diet and sleep this boost my success with women wayyy more than wealth.

Now I go to distant places as a vagabond hipster and get more women interested in me then when I walk out of a fancy car. So what gives?

Thing is it's not just women's attention that's hardwired in me but men also seem to respect guys with hot girlfriends and wealth and also many times people mistake being rich for being intelligent and I am often suprized that people assume this when you can become rich by being ruthless and morally corrupt.

By having a time limit. When I was new and over excited young guy I started with the assumption that we'll be working on it for a really long time but it rarely proved true.

Truth is most projects will be shelved before even they are complete.

You'll be taken off some projects because of financial or political BS.

So start with the assumption, there is limited time to deliver - now ask yourself - how can I maximize the effectiveness of that time? How can I do what truly matters without going into the rabbit hole of optimizations and using the best thing possible everywhere.

And once you've done that, you can always come back and improve the thing if the project is still around but most likely it will not be. Either you'd have switched the company or company would have switched you or the project has switched the company.

I don't think it's true, a lot of my German friends have been traveling for 3 years in south East Asia without having any real job while I hear from German old men that new generation is not as passionate about working as they were at their time. So what gives? How do Germans maintain such high quality life without working, it's mystery to me.

I also sell 3d printed models online so I've made like 20+ e-commerce websites so far. Most of them are niche website and get 5-10 sales each and some even get zero sales but some websites are seasonal in nature and in some season or event, they blow up in sales.

I am trying to capture this windfall but Shopify is not good for this task.

They charge per store so I am limited to just having one store which is not good for niche work - exploration and discovery.

I've a multiple stores and some stores get 5 sales a month on $10 item and for that I can't afford Shopify.

I am looking for something which I can host on my own as I've nearly free servers (I receive digital ocean credit through affiliate sales on the guides I wrote) so hosting is free for me and tinkering is free as there not much work where I working so I can fix my website in that time.

Also I don't like to pay monthly for closed source product. That's my ideological reason, it's low in priority but I always choose open whenever possible

Yes some of my websites sell 5 items a month and Shopify gets expensive for that too

Yes I know a few guys in customs who are paid to look other way and they use CHA to benefit from such thing (so they aren't directly involved by indirectly involved through CHA) when caught they blame it on people working under them

But that's when you make most money. Regulators are salaried individual, what's the incentive for them to do their job properly?

Think about if a regulator looks the other way, he is seen as incompetent - many times you'll not be punished for incompetence at work. But this benefits the corporate player and he can offer benefits to the regulator like private jet (for his family/friend use), maybe access to a resort where the regulator's family can stay during vacation or maybe an apartment in some posh locality where the regulator's kid can study abroad.

People are acting in their self interest.

You've salary and ethics Vs luxuries and loyality from the rich man who is unlikely to go bust.

Thing is you can choose to not coperate but that only increases the price and the rich man goes for your boss then you get in trouble as boss is cooperating with them and he may fire you.

I once dated a very rich and powerful lady in Asia and she could solve all problems with just 1 phone call - that was amazing, she new everyone everywhere it felt.

I moved to partime work as my software job was getting boring and mind numbing.

Yes I ended up working remotely from a suburb where I could buy more land for my experiments and hobbies.

Now I am selling 3d printer filament that I manufacture in my garage lab:

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

I don't know about you but I like experimenting with processes and turning them into something that could be sold and something which people will pay for.

I extrude filament and sell it online: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Whatever cash I get I use it to fund hobbies and recently I got a lathe and CNC mill which I've yet to learn how to use them to fullest.

Lathe and milling machine

Plastic is non biodegradable that's the problem.

The paper is decomposed and the organic matter goes back into soil

With plastic, it leaches into ground water or soil and creates health hazards.

I've found that I can recycle plastic using a filament extruder and make good money by doing so:

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...